Like Stalin, Mao is a frank embarrassment to left-leaning types like myself because he gives right-wingers a bloody big stick with which to beat leftists over the head while screaming "COMMUNISM DOESN'T WORK!!!!!" in tones loud enough to drown out the rather weak protests from the opposition that whatever Stalin and Mao did didn't have a lot to do with authentic communism. Despite the dictatorship of the proletariat being one of Marxist theory's most vaunted features, the proletariat had bugger all to do with Communist Russia and Communist China; Stalin's cult of personality in the USSR speaks for itself, and Mao's circumvention of the Communist Party of China through the Cultural Revolution when the CPC was trying to sideline him does much the same.

So the notion of a positive Hollywood (at least that's what I'm assuming it'll be) biopic of Mao makes little or no sense to me that I can see. I know that China has Most Favoured Trading Nation status (or whatever they call it now) with the US, which they obviously never did in Mao's lifetime, but that still doesn't work as an explanation. Hollywood glorifying a demonstrable tyrant? What's that supposed to tell us about La-La_Land's current political mindset in the late Bush era?